April 03, 2002
April 3rd, 2002 | Filed under General Writing.
I’ve been structuring myself a lot these past weeks. Not with regiments and routines that don’t work, but organising myself in a way that is proving vital.
I currently have so many projects happening that I was beginning to be swamped by them all. I have this website to update and keep fresh, and emails galore to respond to. I have the Another Girl at Play site where I also have emails to respond to, sites to review, PR to do, a newsletter to write and profiles to update. I also have my writing, which currently involves my book proposal, articles to write and some other small projects. On top there is my Docent Class for which I have to write a project and participate in the weekly classes and keep up with all that. That’s a lot for one person, one brain and only 24 hours each day.
So I created a plan to keep my sanity.
The first thing I did was set aside certain days for certain tasks.
Mondays are my email days where I respond to all personal emails, site feedbacks and site submissions on this day only. That way I don’t feel guilty if email stacks up during the week because I know I’ve set aside time each Monday to deal with it. It also saves me from having to worry about it during the week or catching up when I should be writing an article. I’ve also set up auto responders and numerous email addresses to distinguish between whose who.
Fridays are my marketing/promotional days and this is when I work on selling my work, marketing myself and my sites, catch up on business emails that weren’t urgent, update the sites and so on.
I’m also learning to prioritise which is something I didn’t think I had to learn since at my corporate job this was one skill I was constantly complimented on. But with so much going on, and so many things I truly believe are important, I have to really get honest with myself and say what I can do now, what I can do later, and what I can’t do at all. It’s sometimes boils down to me having to be rather harsh and forgoing things I’d like to do, because the reality is, I ain’t Superwoman.
By doing just those few things, I’ve been able to keep my head above water. I can take care of business while still creating and having minimum stress. That is crucial right now because I have the energy, the drive, the passion and the talent to make something of myself and the only thing that could stop me is my own disorganised self.
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I’ve been structuring myself a lot these past weeks. Not with regiments and routines that don’t work, but organising myself in a way that is proving vital.
I currently have so many projects happening that I was beginning to be swamped by them all. I have this website to update and keep fresh, and emails galore to respond to. I have the Another Girl at Play site where I also have emails to respond to, sites to review, PR to do, a newsletter to write and profiles to update. I also have my writing, which currently involves my book proposal, articles to write and some other small projects. On top there is my Docent Class for which I have to write a project and participate in the weekly classes and keep up with all that. That’s a lot for one person, one brain and only 24 hours each day.
So I created a plan to keep my sanity.
The first thing I did was set aside certain days for certain tasks.
Mondays are my email days where I respond to all personal emails, site feedbacks and site submissions on this day only. That way I don’t feel guilty if email stacks up during the week because I know I’ve set aside time each Monday to deal with it. It also saves me from having to worry about it during the week or catching up when I should be writing an article. I’ve also set up auto responders and numerous email addresses to distinguish between whose who.
Fridays are my marketing/promotional days and this is when I work on selling my work, marketing myself and my sites, catch up on business emails that weren’t urgent, update the sites and so on.
I’m also learning to prioritise which is something I didn’t think I had to learn since at my corporate job this was one skill I was constantly complimented on. But with so much going on, and so many things I truly believe are important, I have to really get honest with myself and say what I can do now, what I can do later, and what I can’t do at all. It’s sometimes boils down to me having to be rather harsh and forgoing things I’d like to do, because the reality is, I ain’t Superwoman.
By doing just those few things, I’ve been able to keep my head above water. I can take care of business while still creating and having minimum stress. That is crucial right now because I have the energy, the drive, the passion and the talent to make something of myself and the only thing that could stop me is my own disorganised self.
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